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> The only reason 32bit windows is still around is to support 16bit apps for these companies.

Pretty sure it's also used in some Atom tablets.




Atoms have been 64bit since 2010.


The HP Stream 7, a tablet released in late 2014 on the 64-bit Atom Z3735G, shipped with 32-bit Windows. This was presumably to avoid the memory overhead of 64-bit pointers, as it came with 1GB of RAM, so every bit counted.




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